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Happy New Year?

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Combined with Christmas Bird Counts and (relatively) lavish year-end vacation time here in North America, the result is a time when we celebrate owls , finches , and sea ducks ; when the local corvids are cheerfully ticked again; when feeders are filled and the odd overwintering individuals from some surprising species are documented.

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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings.

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

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The style has been adopted enthusiastically by contemporary craft brewers, so there are a lot of creative variations out there on the delicious but austere originals. Even the brewery’s spent grains, once shoveled out of the mash tun, are hauled off to a local farm as livestock feed. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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